WELCOMEWelcome and thank you for visiting the Florin Chapter - Sacramento Valley (Florin JACL-SV) Japanese American Citizens League website. We hope that you are able to attend one of our future events and/or get involved with the board or a committee. Our chapter has something for everyone. If you have any questions, please contact co-presidents Andy Noguchi [email protected] or Josh Kaizuka [email protected].
FLORIN JACL - SACRAMENTO VALLEY CHAPTER EVENTSDate: 12/7/24
Event: 89th Annual Awards and Installation Luncheon Time: 11:00am - 3:00pm Location: Laguna Town Hall Address: 3020 Renwick Ave Elk Grove, CA 95758 Description: Help Recognize This Year's Community Leader Honorees! These special awardees symbolize the amazing friends, allies, and members who share their time and talents to the community and to Florin JACL-SV. They shine in their willingness to help us help people so come and be inspired by their stories of community leadership. These Community Leaders are: 1. Jan Ken Po Gakko, Community Service Award 2. Sharon Ito, Carol Hisatomi Women's Leadership Award 3. Jennifer Kubo, Florin JACL-SV Leadership Award 4. Krista Keplinger, Next Generation Leadership Award Become a sponsor! Get a table! Get a ticket! Get the order form at: https://tinyurl.com/3cmhuj33 For more information, email: [email protected] Admission Price: Table of 8 for $375 or $50 per ticket. Contact Email: [email protected] JOIN FLORIN - SACRAMENTO VALLEY CHAPTER TODAY!If you'd like to join the Florin - Sacramento Valley JACL chapter, click here.
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CHAPTER NEWSLETTERS2024 Winter Edition, click here.
2023 Summer/Fall Edition, click here. 2023 Winter Edition, click here. 2022 Summer Edition, click here. 2022 Spring Edition, click here. For past newsletters, click here. BOARD MEETINGSDate: Every Third Thursday of the Month (Virtual Meetings due to COVID 19, contact co-president for more info.)
Time: 7:00 PM Location: Florin Community History Center Address: 7245 Fletcher Farm Dr, Sacramento, CA 95828 Contact: Co-Presidents Andy Noguchi [email protected] or Josh Kaizuka [email protected]. ABOUT FLORIN JACL - SACRAMENTO VALLEYThe Florin Chapter of the Japanese American Citizens League (JACL) is one of the oldest and most active local community organizations involved in teaching cross-cultural understanding and promoting civil rights of all people. More
MEMBERSHIP EMAIL LISTIf you would like to join the Florin JACL - Sacramento Valley membership email list so you will be kept up to date regarding Florin JACL events and news, please click here.
FUN, FESTIVITY, AND FRIENDSHIP - 2021 NEW YEAR'S OZONI, ZENZAI, AND MOCHI DRIVE BY AND PICK UP
Refusing to be stymied by the Covid lockdown, the Florin JACL-Sacramento Valley Chapter organized a fun socially distanced New Year’s Day Ozoni, Zenzai, and Mochi Drive By and Pickup for about two dozen families on a member’s sidewalk. For complete article and pictures, click here.
DONATE TO FINISH THE AKAMYA CULTURAL STUDIO!
Today, we have a great opportunity to support Native American culture by completing the Cultural Dance Studio in Big Pine, California by AkaMya, a key Florin JACL ally. Won’t you donate by May 5th? For more information, click here.
WHAT DOES IT MEAN FOR TODAY? HOLOCAUST REMEMBRANCE DAY - HONORING 6 MILLION JEWSOn February 19th, Japanese Americans reflect on the forced imprisonment of 120,000 members in America’s WWII concentration camps. On April 8 th this year, people across the world reflect on the genocide of 6 million European Jews in the Holocaust (Yom HaShoah in Hebrew) killed in executions, death, and forced labor camps by Nazi Germany and their collaborators. For complete article, click here.
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POWER OF WORD HANDBOOK
Words matter and more important today to understand that true descriptive and accurate “words” are used instead of euphemisms. National JACL has updated the “Power of Words Handbook” so download and learn why words like “non-aliens” was used instead of “citizens” or “internment camps” instead of “concentration camps.” We have to learn and use the correct "words" or non-sensical terms will continue to be used to misrepresent how horrific ripping families from their homes and imprisoning them in US concentration camps truly was.
Download the POW Handbook, click here. REMEMBERING U.C. DAVIS PROFESSOR ISAO FUJIMOTO
Isao Fujimoto opened eyes, stirred hearts, armed, and inspired generations of Asian American and Pacific Islander (AAPI) community activists to change society for the better. His family aptly described him as both “a professor and community organizer”. Dr. Isao Fujimoto, PhD, passed away peacefully in his Davis home on February 25, 2022 at the age of 88. For complete article, click here.
NORTHERN CALIFORNIA TIME OF REMEMBRANCE$3,950 RAISED LOCALLY AKAMYA NATIVE AMERICAN CULTURE STUDIO OPENED MAY 29THAn awe-inspiring AkaMya Native American Culture Studio swung open its doors May 29th on the Big Pine Paiute-Shoshone Tribal reservation after a four-year effort of self-reliance, vision, commitment, volunteer labor, and donations.
For full article, click here. Dedication Event Pictures, click here. Fundraiser Donors, click here. |
Hi Community Leaders, Activists, Friends, and Allies,
We hope all of you have been well and hanging in there during these challenging times of Covid lock downs, economic shutdowns, and political divisions. Fortunately, the recent elections and vaccine developments finally show some promise. Our Florin JACL-Sacramento Valley is trying to continue efforts for the community.
Sign the 8 Point Asians for Black Lives Resolution – Support Black Racial Justice
We’ve been very concerned about the ongoing injustices of rogue police and others brutalizing innocent Black people so have initiated an Asians for Black Lives Resolution – Supporting Black Racial Justice (click here for a copy).
The listed 15 local organizations and 55 community leaders and activists have already signed on. We believe this is one way of raising awareness, support, building community, and showing solidarity with the Black community.
Please let us know if we can also add your organization and/or individual name by emailing back by December 15th to [email protected]
We ask all concerned people who agree with this resolution to sign on, whether or not you are Asian. Like supporting the Black Lives movement, this resolution is one way to build solidarity among communities and support the Asian American and Pacific Islander (AAPI) experience.
For signers we would like to list a title and/or description of you and your organization so please include that.
Institutional Racism, Stereotypes, and Implicit Bias Rampant
On May 25th in Minneapolis, an officer knelt on George Floyd’s neck for 8 minutes choking him to death in front of dozens of witnesses as he called out “I can’t breathe”. This and innumerable other incidents have outraged Americans causing hundreds of protests across the country including in the Sacramento area. Rooted in 300 years of slavery and 100 years of racist Jim Crow laws, the Black community and allies are standing up to this system.
Unfortunately, stereotypes, institutional racism, and implicit bias have impacted Black peoples, other people of color including Asian American and Pacific Islanders (AAPI), the LGBTQ communities, women, the disabled, the poor, and many others.
The widely disproportionate police shootings, arrests, searches, and traffic stops of Blacks proves this injustice. California Attorney General Javier Becerra reported in July that Blacks were 43% of the use-of-force cases from 2013-2018 though they were just 13% of Sacramento. In 2015, FBI Director James Comey admitted implicit bias that “[m]any people in our white-majority culture have unconscious racial biases and react differently to a white face than a black face”.
Asian Americans and Pacific Islanders (AAPIs) and Institutional Racism
AAPIs know from personal experience the institutional racism in our country’s history and how it can affect our lives today
Asians were first banned by discriminatory immigration laws from coming to America, denied citizenship, the right to own land, and barred from many jobs. Now Asian Americans are unjustly blamed for conflicts with foreign Asian countries, even suffering backlash today from Donald Trump’s use of xenophobic labels like “kung flu” and “China virus”.
The 8 Point Asians for Blacks Lives Resolution
Our Florin JACL -Sacramento Valley has struggled with these issues. We want to do more and think this resolution can be one way especially from the Asian American and Pacific Islander perspective in building support.
We are publicly sharing this attached Asians for Black Lives Resolution and an endorsers list through social media, internet, and email. As other endorsements come in by December 15th, we will update the list of supporters.
We are also working on a Background Sheet more fully explaining this Asians for Black Resolution and these issues.
The listed 15 local organizations and 55 community leaders and activists have already signed on. We believe this is one way of raising awareness, support, building community, and showing solidarity with the Black community.
Please let us know if we can also add your organization and/or individual name by emailing back by December 15th to [email protected]
We ask all concerned people who agree with this resolution to sign on, whether or not you are Asian. Like supporting the Black Lives movement, this resolution is one way to build solidarity among communities and support the Asian American and Pacific Islander (AAPI) experience.
For signers we would like to list a title and/or description of you and your organization so please include that.
Institutional Racism, Stereotypes, and Implicit Bias Rampant
On May 25th in Minneapolis, an officer knelt on George Floyd’s neck for 8 minutes choking him to death in front of dozens of witnesses as he called out “I can’t breathe”. This and innumerable other incidents have outraged Americans causing hundreds of protests across the country including in the Sacramento area. Rooted in 300 years of slavery and 100 years of racist Jim Crow laws, the Black community and allies are standing up to this system.
Unfortunately, stereotypes, institutional racism, and implicit bias have impacted Black peoples, other people of color including Asian American and Pacific Islanders (AAPI), the LGBTQ communities, women, the disabled, the poor, and many others.
The widely disproportionate police shootings, arrests, searches, and traffic stops of Blacks proves this injustice. California Attorney General Javier Becerra reported in July that Blacks were 43% of the use-of-force cases from 2013-2018 though they were just 13% of Sacramento. In 2015, FBI Director James Comey admitted implicit bias that “[m]any people in our white-majority culture have unconscious racial biases and react differently to a white face than a black face”.
Asian Americans and Pacific Islanders (AAPIs) and Institutional Racism
AAPIs know from personal experience the institutional racism in our country’s history and how it can affect our lives today
Asians were first banned by discriminatory immigration laws from coming to America, denied citizenship, the right to own land, and barred from many jobs. Now Asian Americans are unjustly blamed for conflicts with foreign Asian countries, even suffering backlash today from Donald Trump’s use of xenophobic labels like “kung flu” and “China virus”.
The 8 Point Asians for Blacks Lives Resolution
Our Florin JACL -Sacramento Valley has struggled with these issues. We want to do more and think this resolution can be one way especially from the Asian American and Pacific Islander perspective in building support.
We are publicly sharing this attached Asians for Black Lives Resolution and an endorsers list through social media, internet, and email. As other endorsements come in by December 15th, we will update the list of supporters.
We are also working on a Background Sheet more fully explaining this Asians for Black Resolution and these issues.
What Is the Florin JACL-SV?
The mission of the Florin JACL - SV (Florin Japanese American Citizens League-Sacramento Valley) is: ”Promoting civil rights, social justice, and cultural heritage for all Americans through community education, alliances and leadership”.
Founded in 1935 85 years ago in the Japanese American immigrant farming community of Florin south of Sacramento, it’s a grass roots community organization. Over the years we have been honored to help end a segregated Florin school in the 1930s, push for citizenship rights for immigrant Japanese in the 1950s, and work for redressing the unjust imprisonment of 120,000 Japanese Americans in American WWII concentration camps in the 1980s and 1990s.
We have been proud to stand with many others including the Black, Jewish, and Chinese American communities against fire bombings in the 1990s; the Muslim, Sikh, Arab, and South Asian Americans during the unjust backlash after the 9/11 attacks; and the family and LGBTQ community when a 12-year-old child was bullied into taking his own life in 2014.
For the Asians for Black Lives Resolution – Supporting Black Racial Justice, please let us know if we can add your name, title, and/or organization by emailing us back by December 15th at [email protected].
asians_for_black_lives_resolution_and_signers_for_release__11-25-20.pdf
Thank you for your consideration,
Andy
Andy Noguchi and Josh Kaizuka
Co-Presidents
Florin Japanese American Citizens League (Florin JACL – Sacramento Valley)
Founded in 1935 85 years ago in the Japanese American immigrant farming community of Florin south of Sacramento, it’s a grass roots community organization. Over the years we have been honored to help end a segregated Florin school in the 1930s, push for citizenship rights for immigrant Japanese in the 1950s, and work for redressing the unjust imprisonment of 120,000 Japanese Americans in American WWII concentration camps in the 1980s and 1990s.
We have been proud to stand with many others including the Black, Jewish, and Chinese American communities against fire bombings in the 1990s; the Muslim, Sikh, Arab, and South Asian Americans during the unjust backlash after the 9/11 attacks; and the family and LGBTQ community when a 12-year-old child was bullied into taking his own life in 2014.
For the Asians for Black Lives Resolution – Supporting Black Racial Justice, please let us know if we can add your name, title, and/or organization by emailing us back by December 15th at [email protected].
asians_for_black_lives_resolution_and_signers_for_release__11-25-20.pdf
Thank you for your consideration,
Andy
Andy Noguchi and Josh Kaizuka
Co-Presidents
Florin Japanese American Citizens League (Florin JACL – Sacramento Valley)
FLORIN - SACRAMENTO VALLEY JACL FACEBOOK POSTS
FLORIN - SACRAMENTO VALLEY JACL PICTURES, VIDEOS & ARTICLES
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- 2016-06-22 SALAM Interfaith Award to Florin JACL
- 2015-12-18 - Support the San Bernardino Shooting Victims
- 2015-10-30 - Help WWII Tule Lake Teacher Find Her 4th Grade Students
- 2015-08-22 - 4th Annual Elk Grove Multicultural Festival
- 2015-01-17 - Ronin Shimizu Florin JACL Article
- 2015-07-01 - Response to Complaint Letter to Back Alley Bowl
- 2015-07-01 - Bishop's Back Alley Bowl backs out of meeting
- 2015-05-13 - Complaint Letter to Back Alley Bowl
- 2015-04-24 - Florin JACL's 10th Annual Manzanar Pilgrimage
FLORIN - SACRAMENTO VALLEY JACL BUSINESS/CORPORATE SUPPORTERS
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